Agenda

Day


01 April 2013
Subject/Activity
Responsible Person/s
8:30 -09:15
Registration
Organizers
9:15-9:20
Welcome
Peter Thorne | Africa RISING Project Coordinator, ILRI
9:20-10:00
Introductions and Expectations
Participants, Facilitators (Simret Yasabu and Zelalem Lema)
10:00-10:15
Africa RISING Project Background
Peter Thorne
10:15-10:30
NBDC Project Background + Innovation Platforms(IP)
Zelalem Lema,Research Officer, NBDC, ILRI
10:30-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-11:20
Previous SLATE based survey processes and findings at Bekoje, Arsi
Amare Haileslassie, Senior Scientist, ICRISAT/ILRI
11:20-12:30
Steps on data collection and software demonstration
Peter Thorne, Amare Haileslassie and Tesfaye Shiferaw (CIMMYT)
12:30-14:00
Lunch Break
14:00-15:30
Software demonstration
Peter Thorne, Amare Haileslassie and Tesfaye Shiferaw
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-16:30
Discussion/ reflection
Participants
16:30-17:00
Fieldwork program and arrangement
Kindu Mekonnen and Simret Yasabu
Day 2, 3 and 4 (02-04 April 2013) – field work at Jeldu
Day 5
05 April 2013
09:00-9:30
Review field exercises
Participants/ Simret Yasabu and Zelalem Lemma
9:30-9:50
Presentations/ benchmarking – Bekoje experience
Peter Thorne/ Amare Haileslassie
09:50-10:30
Performance of the slate tool
Participants/ Simret Yasabu and Zelalem Lemma
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:30
Implementation plan and the way forward
Peter Thorne/ Kindu Mekonnen/ Simret Yasabu
12:30-13:30
Lunch Break